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The Mailers Council, the nation’s largest coalition of mailers and mailing associations, today urged the Senate to pass S 2754, a bill that calls on the White House to create a presidential commission to evaluate the financially-ailing United States Postal Service (USPS).

Introduced by Senator Susan M. Collins (R-ME), S 2754 calls for the president to create an 11-member commission. To ensure the commission’s independence, the bill would prohibit any postal stakeholders–employees, managers or competitors–from being commission members.

Recognizing the need to ensure that employee concerns are duly considered, the bill would require that at least one commissioner be a union representative (but not one representing postal employees or competitors).

Another increase in the rates charged by the U.S. Postal Service took effect June 30 with little, if any, outrage by the general public.
Even heavy mailers like catalog companies were rather quiet. Maybe it’s because most Americans believe that even with this latest rate increase, the work the Postal Service does is still a bargain.
Then again, what good would protest have done? The Postal Service is, after all, a regulated monopoly, albeit one facing increased competition, particularly from the Internet.